The Osceola times., 1887-01-15
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.


CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
REV. G. b. ScALrs, Of East Lynn. Ill,
who ran away with Miss Matthews, leav-
ing his wife and five children behind, was
arrested at London, Ont, on the 18th. The
parties concerned consented TO 90 back in
charge Of a detective.
THE door OF the post oflice "A Eyeter, N.
H., was pricd open with q spike on the
night OF the 27th, the safe blown open and
robbed Of steel chest containing several
hundred dollars worth Of stamps besides
money and valuables.
THE safe IN the post-ofiice at Wadsworth
O., was blown open on the night OF the
27th, aud about five hundred dollars in
m oney, sixty dollars in stamps and two
checks were taken.
Two OF the participants in the great ex-
press robbery have squealed on Fother-
ingham, stating that he was TO receive
i0,O0o for allowing himself to be robbed
| in the manner he was. A large additional
sum of the stolen money hes been recov-
cred, and the Pinkertons think they will
ultimately secure the greater portion OF
| the amount stolen.
| AN entire block OF buildings at Green's
burg, Pa, was burned on the Goth.
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stabbed his wife ON the Goth so that II was
thought she would die,
WILLIAM HUTTON, a farmer Of Fillmore
County, Mimi, was bunkoed out Of $1,000
| at New Y ork on the Goth.
| The steamer Sir John was burned off st.
John, N. b., on the Goth, and five persons
were fatally injured by fire and one was
drowned.
X. l.. MILLER and his son was indicted
by the grand jury of Tazewell County, w.
| Va, on the Goth for having set fire TO their
| hotel at Pocahontas last October. George
and Charles Baker, two worthy young men
| Of Pocahontas, were burned TO death in the
| hotel at the time of the fire.
FIVE persons were killed at q fire In
Lisbon, the capital of Portugal, on the
30th.
Ira BIoKEL Of Waubeck, Ia, killed his
father with club on the 30th,
HALF Of the town of Marlboro, Nd, was
destroyed by fire on the Both.
PEPPISA LAToRRE, an Italian girl, fell in
front of an Elevated railroad train at New
| York on the Dth, and was crushed to
death.
A REPORT is current that Mexican troops
and revolutionists have had terrible
fight in Sinaloa, Mexico, and many were
killed on both sides. The report has not
yet been confirmed.
THE removal Of the snow which fell in
the late storm in Germany has revealed
an appalling loss of life. Many travellers
were overtalxen by the storm. Fifty
bodies have been found in Saxony, thirty
in Thuringia and forty in Southern Ger
many. 1t is estimated that the total loss
of life will be nearly two hundred.
TnE three principals in the celebrated
Frisco express robbery, Wittrock, Haight
| and Weaver are safely housed in jail at
ST. Louis and nearly all of the stolen
money has been recovered and returned
TO the Adams Express Company. The men
have all made onfessions and will not in
| volve the courts in an expensive trial.
| They all agree AS TO Messenger Fothering-
| hams innocence.
TEN men were killed and many others
were seriously injured by a collision be-
tween IA construction train and freight
on the Southern Pacific railway near
DEVILS Run. ON the night OF the 3lst
OK the evening of the lst Mrs Lizzie
Lcppcr and Miss Tina Muck er were killed
and seven other young ladies wounded at
Fort Wayne, Ind, by the sleigh in which
they were riding to dance, being run
into by train at a railway crossing. Their
male escorts all escaped by jumping from
the sleigh, but the ladies were not quick
enough.
ON the 3lst ult nearly three hundred
natives lost their lives by the burning of
the reserved inclosure of the Peoples Park
at Madras. India.